Root cause pattern recognition based model training

ABSTRACT

Examples provide a system and method for retraining a machine learning (ML) algorithm associated with a trained model using root cause pattern recognition. The system analyzes the results of parsing unstructured data and identifies a root cause pattern causing the trained model to underperform when parsing data including the identified pattern. Examples of data including the pattern are created for use in retraining the model to correctly detect and parse data following the identified pattern. Once retrained, the model is able to parse unstructured data, including data having the identified pattern, in accordance with expected performance metrics. The system automatically identifies parsing errors, identifies the root cause patterns for these errors and retrains the models to correctly handle those patterns for more accurate and efficient handing of unstructured data by trained models.

BACKGROUND

It is frequently beneficial for unstructured data to be parsed into astructured data format for storage in a database or processing by anapplication or other software. An algorithm may be used to convertunstructured data into structured data. However, some unstructured data,such as, but not limited to, natural language text, may be provided in awide variety of difficult-to-predict formats and styles, which canresult in inaccuracies and errors in the conversion process. Thesevariations and inconsistencies can result in parsing errors whenattempts are made to convert unstructured data into structured data.Moreover, some types of data are more difficult to parse correctly thanothers. Currently, the task of identifying parsing errors is a manualprocess which is frequently tedious, inaccurate, unreliable, andinefficient.

SUMMARY

This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in asimplified form that are further described below in the DetailedDescription. This Summary is not intended to identify key features oressential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended tobe used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subjectmatter.

Some examples provide a computer system for retraining a model usingroot cause pattern recognition. The computer system includes a datastorage device storing unstructured data; at least one processor; andone or more tangible computer-readable media having stored thereonprogram code for root cause pattern recognition. The program code causesthe at least one processor to receive an analysis result from a machinelearning (ML) algorithm associated with a trained model. The analysisresult includes parsed data indicating the model is underperforming withregard to parsing at least a portion of the unstructured data input intothe trained model. A pattern in the portion of the unstructured dataassociated with a root cause contributing to underperformance of thetrained model is identified. The pattern includes an order of componentswithin the portion of the unstructured data and/or a data characteristicof the unstructured data incorrectly parsed by the trained model. One ormore examples including the root cause pattern is generated. The MLalgorithm is automatically retraining the ML algorithm associated withthe trained model using the one or more examples. The ML algorithm istrained to correctly parse input unstructured data including the rootcause pattern. When the retrained ML algorithm is able to detect theroot cause pattern in the training data, the trained model is redeployedto resume parsing of the unstructured data by the trained model.

Other examples provide a method for root cause pattern recognition. Ananalysis result is received from a ML algorithm associated with atrained model. The result includes parsed data indicating the model isunderperforming with regard to parsing at least a portion of theunstructured data input into the trained model. A pattern is identifiedwhich is contributing to underperformance of the trained model. Examplesincluding the root cause pattern are generated. The trained model isretrained using the examples. The retrained model then resumes parsingthe unstructured data after retraining enables the model to detect theidentified pattern.

Still other examples provide one or more computer storage devices havingcomputer-executable instructions stored thereon for root cause patternrecognition for retraining ML models, which, on execution by a computer,cause the computer to perform operations, including identification ofthe root cause. An analysis result is received from a ML algorithmassociated with a trained model. The analysis result includes parseddata indicating the model is underperforming. The root cause pattern forthe underperformance is identified. Examples including the pattern aregenerated. The model is retrained using the examples. The model istrained to detect the pattern. In response to determining the retrainedML algorithm associated with the trained model is detecting the rootcause pattern, parsing of the unstructured data by the trained modelresumes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a system forretraining a trained machine learning (ML) model using root causepattern recognition.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a trained model fornormalizing unstructured data.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a model manager fortesting and training ML models.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a root causeassociated with incorrectly parsed data.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a user interfacedevice for displaying ML model evaluation results and prompts to a user.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain an ML model to improve parsing of data.

FIG. 7 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain ML models based on a root cause forincorrectly parsed data.

FIG. 8 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain a ML model in response to user approval forretraining.

FIG. 9 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain a ML model using training data set includingexample addresses including a pattern similar to the root cause patternof incorrectly parsed data.

FIG. 10 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to test and train a ML model using example data havingthe same root cause pattern as a candidate portion of data.

FIG. 11 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to automatically test and train machine learning modelsfor normalizing data.

FIG. 12 is an exemplary table including example address data setexamples.

FIG. 13 is an exemplary table including pattern dictionary data.

FIG. 14 is an exemplary table including metrics data for a trained MLmodel and the retrained ML model.

FIG. 15 is exemplary block diagram illustrating an example computingenvironment suitable for implementing some of the various examplesdisclosed herein.

Corresponding reference characters indicate corresponding partsthroughout the drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

A more detailed understanding can be obtained from the followingdescription, presented by way of example, in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings. The entities, connections, arrangements, and thelike that are depicted in, and in connection with the various figures,are presented by way of example and not by way of limitation. As such,any and all statements or other indications as to what a particularfigure depicts, what a particular element or entity in a particularfigure is or has, and any and all similar statements, that can inisolation and out of context be read as absolute and therefore limiting,can only properly be read as being constructively preceded by a clausesuch as “In at least some examples, . . . ” For brevity and clarity ofpresentation, this implied leading clause is not repeated ad nauseam.

It is sometimes desirable to convert data in an unstructured format intoa more organized format for processing by software or storage in adatabase. Data parsing is the process of normalizing the unstructureddata into a desired structural data format, which may be performed by anormalization model. However, unstructured data may be received by themodel in a multitude of different formats and styles, which can resultin inaccurate data conversion.

For example, but without limitation, if the unstructured data includesgeographical addresses in a natural language format, those addresses mayinclude a wide variety of different abbreviations for different streets,cities, counties, states, etc. Even in cases where users are enteringthe exact same address, the user-provided address data can have typos,missing components, and components in the wrong order. These variationsin the addresses may vary by user.

Unstructured data, such as natural language text provided by users canalso be associated with different types of noise. For example, anabsence of a value in a data field may be indicated in a variety ofways, such as, but not limited to, the values “0”, “n/a,” “notavailable” and/or “null.” As another example with unstructured data suchas addresses, some place names may belong to a different componentdepending on the rest of the values in the address—for example,California is a state in the United States, but it is also a city inKentucky and in Maine. Addresses also change over time, as new placesare built, or old places are renamed. Addresses may also have differentnames in different languages, and different countries have differentstandard ways of organizing the address components. These complexitiescan create a challenge for normalization models to accurately convertunstructured data such as address data into structured address data.Moreover, different patterns in the address data may be more difficultto parse correctly than other addresses.

Typically, a user manually reviews the structured data output by aparser to identify problems with the output structured data. Thepotential problems include parsing errors. For example, if theunstructured data input into the trained model is address data and thestructured data output from the model consistently has the stateabbreviation “OK” incorrectly placed into a data field for the cityname, this is a parsing error. This consistent error may be used toidentify a root cause pattern, which may be causing the trainednormalization model to generate inaccurate results. However, thecomplexities of the input unstructured data and/or the output structureddata can likewise make it difficult for human users to accuratelyidentify aspects of the data, or root causes, which may be causing thenormalization model to parse it incorrectly. For example, looking at oneinput unstructured data including a residence or other address and/orthe output structured data fields holding the various address componentsmay not provide enough information to tell the user which component orother part of the address is forming a pattern that is causing a problemfor the trained normalization model, which is why a complex process isneeded, in some examples, to identify the pattern and evaluate theresults.

Referring to the figures, examples of the disclosure enable retraining atrained machine learning (ML) model using root cause patternrecognition. In some examples, an analysis result is received from a MLalgorithm associated with a trained model. The result includes parseddata indicating the model is underperforming with regard to parsing atleast a portion of the unstructured data input into the trained model.In these examples, the system is able to analyze performance metrics forthe parsed data to automatically identify parsing errors andunderperformance by the system with greater speed, efficiency andaccuracy than is possible for a human user. Moreover, the system is ableto identify errors and root cause patterns contributing to those errorsthat would be unidentifiable to human users due to the underlyingcomplexity of the data. This enables improved parsing results andreduced analysis time by users.

In some examples, one or more patterns are automatically identified inthe parsed data which is contributing to underperformance of the trainedmodel. Examples including the root cause pattern are generated. Thetrained model is retrained using the examples. The system automaticallyidentifies the root cause patterns and generates example data morequickly and accurately than would be possible for a human analyst.Moreover, the system automatically analyzes the parsing errors andidentifies causes with improved speed and accuracy than would otherwisebe possible for human users or prior art systems.

In some examples, the model is retrained to detect the identified rootcause pattern. The retrained model automatically resumes parsing theunstructured data employing different policies and/or rules for handlingthe identified root cause pattern, which results in more accurateparsing. This enables automatic identification of root cause patternsand retraining of the model with little or no human intervention. Thesystem is enabled to identify patterns within input unstructured datawhich would be prohibitively difficult, time-consuming, or impossiblefor a human user due to the potentially complex and varied patternswithin the data which could be causing the parsing errors. In otherwords, the system is able to identify root cause patterns withinunstructured data that analysis beyond human recognition due to thecomplexity and volume of the data.

Other examples of the disclosure enable an address normalization machinelearning (ML) model. In some examples, the system provides an ML modelthat analyzes a candidate address to identify a root cause patternassociated with a failure of the ML model to correctly parse theunstructured candidate address into a structured address. The automatedML model is able to capture the reason for the root cause better than amanual inspection of the address data. The system captures a broader andmore accurate root cause for problems associated with parsing datarather than just a specific cause associated with an isolated address.This improves the efficiency and accuracy of address normalization bythe ML model.

Other aspects of the disclosure provide for automated analysis andprocessing of user (customer) address data for improved privacy andbetter security for users. The parser algorithm associated with the MLmodel can be run on top of the customer data to enable improved privacyas human user access to customer data is more limited due to automationwithin the ML model.

In other examples, the aspects of the disclosure are able to make moreaccurate judgments with regard to identifying root causes and retrainingmodels than a human user. The metric driven approach of the ML modelfurther enables more accurate quantification of the effects of the rootcause using performance metrics and scoring/ranking data. The systemidentifies the impact of the root cause on user-provided address data.For example, if the root cause only impacts a few addresses, the lowimpact may indicate retraining the model is unnecessary. For example, ifan issue only impacts two or three addresses, it may not be worthexpending resources to retrain the model. In contrast, if the impact ofthe root cause is greater, impacting hundreds or even thousands ofaddresses, it indicates that retraining the model may be more beneficialto mitigate the impact of the root cause on larger customer data sets.This enables improved quality of ML model output and more effectivemodel training than is possible by a human user.

In still other examples, the system automatically evaluates the impactof root causes to determine whether it is beneficial to retrain themodel. This reduces system resource usage, conserves memory, and reducesprocessor load, without sacrificing efficiency gains obtained when theML model is retrained for improved accuracy of output.

The computing device operates in an unconventional manner byautomatically evaluating the impact of each identified root causeassociated with a candidate address, as well as the confidence score ofeach candidate. The system compares the accuracy and impact levelsassociated with each address to determine whether or not it is desirableto expend system resources retraining the ML model. In this manner, thecomputing device is used in an unconventional way, and allows improvedaddress normalization by a dynamically retrainable ML model whichcontinually improves performance via feedback and machine learning whilesimultaneously applying performance metrics to avoid unnecessaryretraining operations, thereby improving the functioning of theunderlying computing device.

Furthermore, each time the model is retrained and re-tested, the MLmodel generates more accurate and reliable results. This reduces theunstructured data normalization error rate and improves efficiency ofthe computing process by generating more accurate normalized data viathe automated testing and training of the ML models.

The trained ML model, in some examples, is an address normalizationmodel that trains on the scale of tens of millions of addresses andcovers multiple markets of addresses. A market refers to a geographicarea or region. The customer data the model is applied on includesmillions of addresses and is refreshed with new data periodically at auser-configured time interval and/or at an occurrence of a predeterminedevent.

Many of the examples presented below are discussed in the context ofparsing unstructured address data into structured data for analysis orstorage. However, the examples are not limited to parsing or otherwiseprocessing address data. In other examples, the trained ML model may beused to identify root cause patterns in any type of unstructured datafor processing or parsing by the trained ML model. For example, thesystem may be utilized to process unstructured data such as, but notlimited to, natural language text, human speech, optical characterrecognition, music, videos, images, excerpts from printed publications,data feeds, weather data or any other type of unstructured data.

Referring again to FIG. 1, an exemplary block diagram illustrates asystem 100 for retraining a trained machine learning (ML) model usingroot cause pattern recognition. Unstructured data is data which has notbeen organized in a pre-defined manner, such as, natural language text,dates, numbers, addresses and other types of user-provided data. In theexample of FIG. 1, the computing device 102 represents any deviceexecuting computer-executable instructions 104 (e.g., as applicationprograms, operating system functionality, or both) to implement theoperations and functionality associated with the computing device 102.

The computing device 102, in some examples, includes a mobile computingdevice or any other portable device. A mobile computing device includes,for example but without limitation, a mobile telephone, laptop, tablet,computing pad, netbook, gaming device, and/or portable media player. Thecomputing device 102 can also include less-portable devices such asservers, desktop personal computers, kiosks, or tabletop devices.Additionally, the computing device 102 can represent a group ofprocessing units or other computing devices.

In some examples, the computing device 102 has at least one processor106 and a memory 108. The computing device 102 in other examplesincludes a user interface device 110.

The processor 106 includes any quantity of processing units and isprogrammed to execute the computer-executable instructions 104. Thecomputer-executable instructions 104 is performed by the processor 106,performed by multiple processors within the computing device 102 orperformed by a processor external to the computing device 102. In someexamples, the processor 106 is programmed to execute instructions suchas those illustrated in the figures (e.g., FIG. 6, FIG. 7, FIG. 8, FIG.9, FIG. 10, and FIG. 11.

The computing device 102 further has one or more computer-readable mediasuch as the memory 108. The memory 108 includes any quantity of mediaassociated with or accessible by the computing device 102. The memory108, in these examples is internal to the computing device 102 (as shownin FIG. 1). In other examples, the memory 108 is external to thecomputing device (not shown) or both (not shown).

The memory 108 stores data, such as one or more applications. Theapplications, when executed by the processor 106, operate to performfunctionality on the computing device 102. The applications cancommunicate with counterpart applications or services such as webservices accessible via a network 112. In an example, the applicationsrepresent downloaded client-side applications that correspond toserver-side services executing in a cloud.

In other examples, the user interface device 110 includes a graphicscard for displaying data to the user and receiving data from the user.The user interface device 110 can also include computer-executableinstructions (e.g., a driver) for operating the graphics card. Further,the user interface device 110 can include a display (e.g., a touchscreen display or natural user interface) and/or computer-executableinstructions (e.g., a driver) for operating the display. The userinterface device 110 can also include one or more of the following toprovide data to the user or receive data from the user: speakers, asound card, a camera, a microphone, a vibration motor, one or moreaccelerometers, a BLUETOOTH® brand communication module, globalpositioning system (GPS) hardware, and a photoreceptive light sensor. Ina non-limiting example, the user inputs commands or manipulates data bymoving the computing device 102 in one or more ways.

The network 112 is implemented by one or more physical networkcomponents, such as, but without limitation, routers, switches, networkinterface cards (NICs), and other network devices. The network 112 isany type of network for enabling communications with remote computingdevices, such as, but not limited to, a local area network (LAN), asubnet, a wide area network (WAN), a wireless (Wi-Fi) network, or anyother type of network. In this example, the network 112 is a WAN, suchas the Internet. However, in other examples, the network 112 is a localor private LAN.

In some examples, the system 100 optionally includes a communicationsinterface device 114. The communications interface device 114 includes anetwork interface card and/or computer-executable instructions (e.g., adriver) for operating the network interface card. Communication betweenthe computing device 102 and other devices, such as but not limited to auser device 116 and/or a cloud server 118, can occur using any protocolor mechanism over any wired or wireless connection. In some examples,the communications interface device 114 is operable with short rangecommunication technologies such as by using near-field communication(NFC) tags.

The user device 116 represent any device executing computer-executableinstructions. The user device 116 can be implemented as a mobilecomputing device, such as, but not limited to, a wearable computingdevice, a mobile telephone, laptop, tablet, computing pad, netbook,gaming device, and/or any other portable device. The user device 116includes at least one processor and a memory. The user device 116 canalso include a user interface device.

The cloud server 118 is a logical server providing services to thecomputing device 102 or other clients, such as, but not limited to, theuser device 116. The cloud server 118 is hosted and/or delivered via thenetwork 112. In some non-limiting examples, the cloud server 118 isassociated with one or more physical servers in one or more datacenters. In other examples, the cloud server 118 is associated with adistributed network of servers.

The system 100 can optionally include a data storage device 120 forstoring data, such as, but not limited to a pattern dictionary 122,‘unstructured data 124 representing one or more discrete portion(s) 126of the unstructured data, normalized data 128 and/or one or more flaggedportion(s) 130.

The pattern dictionary 122 is a dictionary storing pattern dataassociated with one or more types of unstructured data. The pattern datamay be associated with various types of data and portion of data, suchas, but not limited to, an address component field values for one ormore geographical addresses, a word or phrase within a natural languagesentence or speech excerpt, a section of an image, etc.

The flagged portion(s) 130 is a set of one or more data portions orindividual entries in the unstructured data which were flagged asincorrectly parsed. In other words, a flagged portion 130 of the data isa discrete portion, entry, or segment of the data which the trained MLmodel 132 attempted to parse using parser 134 with results which werebelow a minimum performance quality expectation for the system.

The ML model 132 is a trained model including a ML algorithm forprocessing data, such as, but not limited to, parsing unstructured data.The ML model 132 can be trained using training data to learn how toprocess data more efficiently or accurately by employing patternrecognition and other artificial intelligence algorithms. The ML model132 may be referred to as a trained model, a trained ML model, aretrained ML model and/or a retrained model.

Parser 134 is a software component for parsing unstructured address datainto structured address data. The parser 134 in this non-limitingexamples parses or attempts to parse unstructured data into normalizeddata 128. In this example, the results of parsing the flagged portion(s)130 of the unstructured data resulted in one or more errors orinaccuracies in the normalized data generated by the parser 134.

The data storage device 120 can include one or more different types ofdata storage devices, such as, for example, one or more rotating disksdrives, one or more solid state drives (SSDs), and/or any other type ofdata storage device. The data storage device 120, in some non-limitingexamples, includes a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array.In other examples, the data storage device 120 includes a database, suchas, but not limited to, the database 246 in FIG. 2 below.

The data storage device 120, in this example, is included within thecomputing device 102, attached to the computing device, plugged into thecomputing device, or otherwise associated with the computing device 102.In other examples, the data storage device 120 includes a remote datastorage accessed by the computing device via the network 112, such as aremote data storage device, a data storage in a remote data center, or acloud storage.

In some examples, a ML model 132 parses the unstructured data 124 tocreate normalized data 128. Parsing refers to converting received datainto a different format, such as converting human text into structuredformat suitable for processing or storage in a data storage device. Ifone or more of the portions of the input unstructured data areinaccurately parsed, the output structured data portion(s) which wereincorrectly parsed are flagged. For example, if the input unstructureddata include a plurality of natural text format addresses for variousmarkets, any addresses which are incorrectly parsed are flagged. Theflagged addresses are the addresses which resulted in underperformanceof the ML model 132.

The flagged portion(s) 130 of the data may be automatically flagged bythe ML model 132 itself. In other examples, a user reviewing thenormalized data 128 can manually flag the data where the user has accessto some structured data to compare to the model's output. In otherwords, if the user has some structured data, the user can compare thatstructured data examples to the normalized data output by the ML modelto determine whether to flag any portion(s) of the data. The usersubmits the flagged portion(s) 130 to the ML model 132.

In other examples, the ML model 132 automatically identifies incorrectlyparsed data based on a confidence score. The confidence score is a scoreindicating the accuracy or confidence level of the system for eachparsed portion of the normalized data. If the confidence score for agiven portion of the parsed data is low and falls below a minimumconfidence threshold, the identified portion of the parsed data isautomatically flagged by the system.

Likewise, where the system is attempting to identify a root causepattern in example data sets, if a pattern within the data which isbeing investigated as a possible cause for the overall underperformancehas a low confidence score associated with that portion of the data, itis unlikely that portion of the data is responsible for theunderperformance. Therefore, the low confidence score cause is discardedas the root cause. If a pattern in a portion of the data which is beingparsed by the system has a very high confidence score associated withthe potential cause, indicating high confidence the potential causecontributed to the inaccuracy of the parsing results, the possible causeis likely to be the actual root cause for the underperformance.

The ML model 132 analyzes the flagged portion(s) 130 to identify one ormore potential root causes for the parsing problems associated with theflagged portion(s) of the data. The root cause identifies a pattern orother issue within the unstructured data that is causing the ML model132 to incorrectly parse the data. The pattern can include the order ofcomponents of the data or a characteristic of the data. A component ofthe data refers to the parts of the data. For example, if theunstructured data is an address, one component of the address is thecity and another component of the address is the state. If the data isan audio file, one component of the data may be volume while anothercomponent of the data may be amplitude or background noise level, etc.

A model manager 135 is a software component for evaluating the ML model132 and/or retraining the ML model 132. The model manager 135 createsexample unstructured data 136 that includes one or more root causepatterns associated with the flagged portion(s) 130. The ML model 132includes at least a portion of unstructured data 124 conforming to thesame pattern as the identified root cause. The model manager 135automatically retrains the ML model 132 using the set of exampleunstructured data 136. The trained model is re-trained to parseunstructured data having the pattern associated with the root cause in adifferent manner to automatically reduce parsing errors. Reducingparsing errors refers to creation of fewer errors during parsing and/orelimination of a specific parsing error which had occurred prior toretraining the ML model.

The example unstructured data 136 in some examples includes a set oftest data used for evaluating the ML model 132. The example unstructureddata 136 may be generated using data obtained from the patterndictionary 122.

In other examples, the example unstructured data 136 is generated usingthe unstructured data 124 obtained from the user. The model, in somenon-limiting examples, can be trained with user data. However, the modelis not trained with the user data.

The model manager 135, in some examples, presents a result 138 of the MLmodel evaluation performed using the example unstructured data 136 viathe user interface device 110. In some non-limiting examples, the result138 is an analysis result generated by a ML algorithm associated withthe trained ML model. The analysis result includes parsed dataindicating the model is underperforming with regard to parsing at leasta portion of the unstructured data input into the trained model. Inother words, the unstructured data is parsed to generate the analysisresults. The results are analyzed for performance indictors (metrics)which indicate whether the parsing is being performed as expected orwhether there are errors (underperforming) due to inability of the modelto recognize or correctly handle one or more patterns in the data.

The result 138 in other examples includes performance metrics,confidence score(s), impact score(s) or other performance related dataassociated with the ML model 132. The ML model 132 automatically parsesaddress data in these examples. The performance metrics, confidencescores and/or impact scores are utilized to identify portion of dataassociated with underperformance of the trained ML model.

In some examples, retrain criterion for determining if/when to retrainthe model is decided based on performance metrics. If the performancemetrics fall below a minimum expected precision (minimum thresholdprecision level) for target impacted portions of the data, the ML modelmanager 135 automatically begins testing and/or re-training the ML modelto improve parsing of the flagged portions of data. The model canoptionally be tested and/or retrained until the performance metric datareaches or exceeds the minimum expected precision thresholds. However,in other examples, the ML model does not automatically re-train the MLmodel 132 unless the user authorizes the re-training.

The model manager 135, in some examples, outputs a prompt 140 to theuser via the user interface device 110. The prompt 140 requests auser-selection to accept re-training of the ML model 132 or rejectre-training of the ML model 132. If the user rejects the re-training,the ML model 132 is not retrained. Instead, the system 100 continuesparsing the data via the ML model 132 without additional retrainingbased on the identified root cause pattern.

In still other examples, the model manager 135 outputs to the user theresult 138 of an evaluation of the re-trained ML model via the userinterface device 110. The re-trained ML model is re-trained andevaluated using example unstructured data 136 having pattern(s)corresponding to the root cause pattern of the flagged portion(s) 130.

In some examples, the model manager 135 automatically deploys there-trained model to parse data after retraining and re-testing of the MLmodel is completed. In other examples, the re-trained and re-tested MLmodel is not deployed unless a user authorizes the deployment. In theseexamples, a prompt is output to the user via the user interface device110. The prompt requests the user to provide input indicating the useraccepts the re-trained ML model for deployment or decline/reject there-trained ML model. If the user accepts or authorizes the deployment ofthe re-trained ML model, the re-trained ML model replaces the originaltrained ML model.

In other examples, the system 100 provides a method for identifyingpatterns that a ML trained algorithm is not training accurately. Thesystem 100 automatically generates a plurality of unstructured dataexamples that satisfy those identified root cause patterns. In otherwords, the system creates data examples in which at least a portion ofthe data is set forth according to the root cause pattern. The ML modelis retrained to learn how to handle those root cause patterns using theexample data sets.

In other examples, the system receives a small set (a single address ora few addresses) of user-provided unstructured address examples thatwere parsed by the ML model incorrectly. The system identifies the rootcause/pattern that is causing the example(s) to be parsed incorrectly,where the pattern or root cause may include the ordering of thecomponents, the data characteristics or values, or the market of theexamples. The system generates additional training and testing data withthis pattern and finds similar customer data examples. The system 100evaluates the ML model on this additional new data. The system 100allows the user to decide whether to train the ML model to improve theresult accuracy when the ML model parses data having this pattern/rootcause.

In some examples, the system samples an appropriate amount ofunstructured data with the new pattern and retrains the ML model usingthe sampled (example) data. The system generates and shares performancemetrics for the ML model performance on the overall dataset as well asthe new segment for the identified pattern. This allows the user tochoose to accept/reject the new model.

In this example, the model manager is shown as a separate softwarecomponent from the ML model. In other non-limiting examples, the MLmodel and the model manager are implemented as a single component.

In an example scenario, the trained ML model is an address normalizationmodel. The example unstructured data 136 includes geographical addresssample data in which the address data follows a root cause patternidentified by the system. The example data sets are utilized forretraining the ML model 132 for more accurately parsing unstructureddata including geographical addresses input in a natural languageformat.

In still other examples, the ML model receives at least one incorrectlyparsed geographical address. The address 142 may be obtained from a useror identified based on a confidence score. The ML model identifies aroot cause of a parsing error 144 identified within unstructured addressdata associated with at least one incorrectly parsed portion of a dataentry data 142. In this example, the incorrectly parsed data portion isa geographical address entry. Although the data in this example is anincorrectly parsed geographical address, the examples are not limited toa geographical address. In other examples, the incorrectly parsed dataportion included in the entry 142 can include a text description, aquestion in text, etc.

In the above example scenario, the root cause includes a pattern in theaddress data. The system generates a set of example address dataincluding unstructured address data associated with a set of examplegeographical addresses including the pattern corresponding to theidentified root cause. The system automatically re-trains the modelusing the generated set of example address data to correctly parse theat least one geographical address having the pattern associated with theidentified root cause. The correctly parsed address is not associatedwith a parsing error.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a trained model 200for normalizing unstructured data trained model 200. The trained model200 is a ML model for parsing unstructured data, such as, but notlimited to, the ML model 132 in FIG. 1. The trained model 200 includes aparser algorithm 202 for parsing unstructured data 230 into structureddata 232.

The unstructured data 230 is any type of unstructured data, such as, butnot limited to, natural language audio data, natural language text,image data, etc. The unstructured data 230 can include address data,descriptive data, product information, user feedback, catalogdescriptions, excerpts from a publication, spoken instructions orquestions, or any other type of information.

The structured data 232 is the unstructured data processed, parsed, orotherwise formatted in accordance with a format or data structure forstorage in a data store and/or processing by an application, another MLmodel or other software. The structured data 232 can include, forexample, but without limitation, structured address data. Structuredaddress data is natural language address data which has been parsed intoa data structure suitable for storage or processing.

The algorithm 202 is a ML algorithm associated with a trained ML model,such as, but not limited to, the ML model 132 in FIG. 1. The algorithm202 can be trained using training data to improve the performance and/oraccuracy of the algorithm 202, such as, but not limited to, recognitionof root cause patterns in unstructured data and how to correctly handlethose patterns.

If the flagged portions(s) 130 are received from a user or identified bythe trained model 200, the machine learning component 234 analyzes theflagged portion(s) 130 using pattern recognition data to identify one ormore probable root causes of the parsing error.

An evaluation engine 236 is a software component that analyzes thestructed data output by the trained model 200. The evaluation engine 236analyzes the output using one or more performance metrics. Theevaluation engine 236 generates a confidence score 238 indicating alevel of confidence in the generated structured data 232 forunstructured data processed by the trained model 200. In somenon-limiting examples, if the confidence score for a given portion ofthe data indicates a level of confidence that is lower than a confidencethreshold in the one or more threshold(s) 242, the trained model 200flags the given portion of the data. However, in other examples, aportion of the output data is only flagged by user(s).

The evaluation engine 236, in other examples, analyzes the unstructureddata in a set of user-provided data and generates an impact score 240indicating the scope of the identified root cause within the set ofuser-provided data. If the root cause pattern 256 is only present in asmall number of data entries or a low percentage of the entries or otherportions of the data, the problems caused by the root cause pattern 256have less impact than if the pattern is present in a larger number ofentries or higher percentage of the entries (data portions).

In some examples, if the impact score 240 is below a threshold value,the system does not continue with the process of retraining the trainedmodel 200. If the impact score 240 is equal to or greater than athreshold, the system proceeds with testing and evaluating the model forretraining.

In still other examples, if the impact score 240 is greater than orequal to a threshold value, the model manager triggers a prompt displayon a user interface device requesting user approval to continue withretraining the trained model 200. The re-training updates the model toimprove parsing data having the root cause pattern. However, if theimpact score 240 is less than the threshold value, the model managerdoes not prompt the user to choose whether to retrain the ML model.

The database 246, in some examples, stores data, such as, but notlimited to, a plurality of unstructured data 248. An entry 250 is auser-provided data entry in an unstructured format, such as, but notlimited to, a geographic address. A candidate data set 252 is a set ofincorrectly parsed 254 data having a root cause pattern 256 identifiedby the trained model 200.

In other examples, the system outputs a report 244 to the user via auser interface device. The report 244 can optionally include theperformance metrics, scores, recommendations, parsed data results, orany other suitable data.

Thus, the ML model, in an example scenario, is an address normalizationmodel that goes through a process of finding example addresses that theML model did not solve correctly. The system finds the root cause forwhy the candidate address was not parsed correctly. The system uses thatinformation to update the ML model so it can solve addresses having thatsame patter correctly or more accurately in the future. This processautomates the parsing, testing, and retraining of the ML addressnormalization model to reduce or eliminate time and effort required by auser during the process. In this manner, the user can enter address dataas input into the trained ML model and receive correct parsed dataoutput from the ML model.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a model manager 135for testing and training ML models. In some non-limiting examples, an MLmodel 302 parses unstructured data to create structured data. The MLmodel 302 is a trained ML model, such as, but not limited to, the MLmodel 132 in FIG. 1 and/or the trained model 200 in FIG. 2. In someexamples, if one or more of the portions of the data are flagged due toproblems with the parsing, the ML model 302 analyzes the flagged data toidentify the root cause pattern present in the flagged data.

In some examples, if the impact of the root cause pattern is sufficient(exceeds a threshold), the model manager 135 generates a test data set304 of example data having the same pattern as the identified root causeassociated with the flagged data portions. The ML model 302 runs thetest data set 304 and generates a result.

The model manager 135, in these non-limiting examples, analyzes theresult to generate an evaluation result 310. The evaluation result 310indicates the accuracy of the ML model 302 parsing the test data set304. If the accuracy or confidence level is below a threshold and/or ifthe user chooses to re-train the model based on the evaluation result310, the model manager 135 retrains the model using a training data set308. The data in the training data set 308 includes data portionsconforming to the same pattern 306. A data portion can include, forexample but without limitation, a geographical address, a name, a jobtitle, a job description, a product description, or any other type ofunstructured data.

In other non-limiting examples, the ML model 302 is re-trained to createa trained ML model 312. The trained ML model 312 is a re-trained MLmodel which has been trained based on root cause pattern data. Thetrained ML model 312 is trained to parse data, such as address data,having the same pattern 306 more accurately and efficiently than the MLmodel 302 which has not been trained or retrained using the root causepattern example data.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a root cause 402associated with incorrectly parsed data. The root cause 402 is apredicted cause of the ML model's inability to correctly parse theflagged data. The root cause 402 identifies a pattern 404 within theflagged data. The pattern 404 can include an order of data components406. Data components are the parts, categories, fields, attributes, orother components of the data. If the unstructured data is an address,the address data components include components such as, but not limitedto, the house number, city, state, country, etc. The pattern 404 canalso include data characteristics 408. The data characteristics identifydata values in one or more fields within the data. If the data is anaddress, a data characteristic for the state field where the entry isthe state of Texas, can include data characteristics such as, but notlimited to, “Texas”, “TX,” Tx,” “Tex.”, or other variations for thestate field of the address. Other root causes of an incorrectly parsedaddress can include the market 410 (region) of the address and/or thequality 412 of the address data.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating a user interfacedevice 110 for displaying ML model evaluation results and prompts to auser. In this example, an evaluation result 502 can include evaluationscore(s) 504, such as, but not limited to, a confidence score and/or animpact score. The score(s) 504 can be compared to one or morethreshold(s) 506 to determine whether to retrain 510 the ML model basedon the performance score(s) 504.

A confidence score can include a parsing confidence score indicating alevel of confidence that a parse result is accurate. In such cases, alow confidence score indicates a low level of confidence that aparticular portion of unstructured data, such as, but not limited to, anaddress, was parsed correctly into structured data. Thus, a low scorewould indicate a high level of likelihood that the parsing result isinaccurate or incorrectly parsed. A high confidence score indicates ahigh level of confidence that the parsed portion of the data was parsedcorrectly.

A confidence score can also include a potential root cause confidencescore. A root cause confidence score indicates a level of confidencethat a potential root cause pattern in a portion of unstructured datawhich was incorrectly parsed is the cause or contributor to the failureto correctly parse the data. Thus, a high root cause confidence scoreindicates a high likelihood that a potential root cause pattern in thedata is the actual cause of the parsing problems. A low confidence scoreindicates the potential root cause is probably not the reason aparticular portion of data is being incorrectly or inaccurately parsed.

The evaluation result 502 presented to a user can also optionallyinclude a recommendation 508. The recommendation 508 can include arecommendation to re-train the ML model or a recommendation to flag theresults 512 of parsing data that conform to the root cause pattern wherethe ML model is not retrained.

In still other examples, one or more prompt(s) 514 are presented to theuser via the user interface device 110. The prompt(s), 514 in someexamples, includes a prompt requesting a user accept 520 or reject 522 arecommendation to retrain 516 the ML model. The prompt(s) 514, in otherexamples, include a request for a user to accept 520 or reject 522 arecommendation to deploy a successfully retrained ML model. The accept520 is a user approval of retraining.

In an example, the system obtains a small test set of data from a user,including examples of unstructured data that were parsed incorrectly.The system identifies the root cause/pattern that is causing the exampleto be parsed incorrectly. Some examples of pattern or root cause includethe ordering of the components, the data characteristics or values, orthe market of the examples. The system generates additional training andtesting data with this pattern and finds similar customer examples. Themodel manager evaluates the model on this additional new data, and theuser decides if the ML model should be re-trained to improve thispattern/root cause. If so, the system automatically samples anappropriate amount of data with the new pattern and trains the modelusing that sample data. The system shares the metrics on the overalldataset with the user via a user interface, as well as the new segmentfor the identified pattern. The user then chooses to accept the newmodel or not.

By identifying the pattern of the root cause of the data being parsedincorrectly, the system is able to build a model that is more accuratefor unstructured data having this same pattern. Rather than justimproving the model for the examples shown, by just adding thoseexamples the system has received in the ML model, the system solves theproblem systematically. The system creates new data to train the modelwhich shares the automatically identified root cause pattern. In thisway, the model can perform well even on data it has not seen yet thatshare the same pattern (order, data characteristic, market), rather thanjust doing well on the given examples. This provides the normalizationservice better accuracy and enables generation of custom ML models forthe normalization service based on the patterns identified in thecustomer data.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain an ML model to improve parsing of data. Theprocess shown in FIG. 6 is performed by a model manager component and/ora ML model, executing on a computing device, such as the computingdevice 102 or the user device 116 in FIG. 1.

The process begins by determining if analysis results indicatingunderperformance of the trained model is received at 602. Theunderperformance is due to one or more patterns which the ML algorithmof the trained model is failing to accurately handle. If yes, the rootcause pattern associated with causing the underperformance is identifiedat 604. The root cause pattern is a pattern in the data which thetrained model is not handling correctly or accurately. Examples havingthe same root cause is generated at 606. The ML algorithm of the trainedmodel is retrained using the examples at 608. A determination is madewhether to continue at 610. If yes, the operations at 602 through 610are iteratively executed until a decision is made not to continue at610. The process terminates thereafter.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 6 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 6.

FIG. 7 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain ML models based on a root cause forincorrectly parsed data. The process shown in FIG. 7 is performed by amodel manager component and/or a ML model, executing on a computingdevice, such as the computing device 102 or the user device 116 in FIG.1.

An incorrectly parsed portion of data is identified at 702. Theincorrectly parsed data can be identified automatically based on aconfidence score. The incorrectly parsed data can also be identifiedbased on a flag added to the portions of the data. A root cause for theincorrectly parsed data portions is generated by the ML model at 704.The model manager creates example unstructured data with the same rootcause at 706. A determination is made whether to retrain the ML model at708. The determination can be made based on a user input indicating theuser chooses to retrain the model. The determination can also be madebased on an impact score and/or a confidence score. If a decision ismade to retrain, the model manager retrains the ML model using thecreated example data having the same root cause as the identifiedincorrectly parsed data at 710. The process terminates thereafter.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 7 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 7.

FIG. 8 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain a ML model in response to user approval forretraining. The process shown in FIG. 8 is performed by a model managercomponent and/or a ML model, executing on a computing device, such asthe computing device 102 or the user device 116 in FIG. 1.

The process begins by identifying a root cause associated with anincorrectly parsed portion of data 802. The root cause is identifiedbased on a ML model analysis of the data. The model manager generatesexample data with the same root cause pattern at 804. The ML model isevaluated using the generated example data at 806. The evaluationresults generated using the example data is presented to the user via auser interface device at 808. The user is prompted to approve retrainingthe ML model at 810. A determination is made whether to approveretraining at 812 based on the user input. If yes, the model isretrained at 814. The model is retrained at 814. The process terminatesthereafter.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 8 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 8.

FIG. 9 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to retrain a ML model using training data set includingexample including a pattern similar to the root cause pattern ofincorrectly parsed data. The process shown in FIG. 9 is performed by amodel manager component and/or a ML model, executing on a computingdevice, such as the computing device 102 or the user device 116 in FIG.1.

The process begins by evaluating the ML model using test data set at902. Generate a confidence score at 904. The confidence score indicatesthe level of confidence assigned to the structured data generated by theML model. A determination is made whether the confidence score is low at906. The score is low if it is less than a threshold. If yes, an impactscore is generated at 908. A determination is made whether the impactscore is high at 910. The score is high if it is equal to or greaterthan a threshold. If yes, a prompt is presented to the user at 912. Theprompt, in some examples, requests the user to choose to accept orreject retraining the ML model. A determination is made whether the userchooses to retrain the model at 914. If yes, a training data set isgenerated at 916. The model is retrained using the training data set at918. The process terminates thereafter.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 9 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 9.

FIG. 10 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to test and train a ML model using example data havingthe same root cause pattern as a candidate portion of data. The processshown in FIG. 10 is performed by a model manager component and/or a MLmodel, executing on a computing device, such as the computing device 102or the user device 116 in FIG. 1.

The process begins by generating test data sample from a patterndictionary according to a root cause pattern at 1002. The ML model isevaluated using test data sample at 1004. A determination is madewhether to continue at 1006. If yes, the training data is generatedaccording to the same root cause pattern at 1008. The ML model istrained at 1010. The re-trained model is evaluated at 1012. Adetermination is made whether to accept the re-trained model at 1014. Ifyes, the ML model is evaluated on customer data at 1016. The customerdata is unstructured data provided by a customer for parsing. Adetermination is made whether to accept the retrained model at 1018. Ifyes, the re-trained model is deployed at 1020. The process terminatesthereafter.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 10 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 10.

FIG. 11 is an exemplary flow chart illustrating operation of thecomputing device to automatically test and train machine learning modelsfor normalizing data.

The system utilizes flagged customer examples 1102 of unstructuredand/or structured customer examples 1104 obtained from data store, suchas the data storage device 120 in FIG. 1 and/or the database 246 in FIG.2. The customer examples 1102 and/or 1104 are searched to identify atleast one candidate data portion or entry 1106. The system determineswhether to create a sample set of data by root cause 1112 using apattern dictionary 1108 and/or a “J” set of values to sample 1110. Thesample data by root cause is a set of test data in which theunstructured data have the same root cause pattern as the candidateaddress 1106. If yes, the system analyzes customer data with similaraddresses by root cause at 1114. The system determines if the scope ofthe root cause on the customer data is greater than a threshold at 1116.If yes, the system outputs a prompt to the user requesting customerpermission to train the ML model at 1126. If the instances of the rootcause in the customer data is low, it may be inefficient to retrain themodel.

The system at 1120 generates sample data as a test set for analyzing thecandidate address pattern using the ML model at 1120. A determination ismade whether the accuracy of the data parsing results generated by theML model is less than a threshold confidence level at 1122. If yes,customer permission to retrain the model is obtained at 1118. Ifpermission is obtained to retrain the model, a training data set isgenerated for the candidate data at 1124. A determination is madewhether to retrain the model at 1126.

If customer approval is obtained to train the model at 1126, adetermination is made whether metrics on overall and candidate data testset at 1128. If yes, the model is applied on similar data obtained fromthe user at 1130. The similar data having the same root cause pattern asthe candidate data. The retrained model goes into use for parsing dataif the customer confirms they would like to use the new retrained modelat 1132.

While the operations illustrated in FIG. 11 are performed by a computingdevice, aspects of the disclosure contemplate performance of theoperations by other entities. In a non-limiting example, a cloud serviceperforms one or more of the operations. In another example, one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructionsmay execute to cause at least one processor to implement the operationsillustrated in FIG. 11.

In some examples, the system identifies patterns from the data bycollecting examples with truth label from customer feedback orcomparison with a structured address. The customer can flag a portion ofdata as incorrect and give truth label. The customer data may have astructured data example available. The system can compare the output ofthe model with this structured example data to find instances where themodel did not parse the unstructured input data correctly.

The system identifies a pattern, p candidate, from the given examples.The system can also consider patterns that are not limited to theordering of components but may also be related to the datacharacteristic. For example, data where the city “Sydney” is labeledincorrectly, or data with an additional space in the postcode value islabeled incorrectly.

In other examples, the system labels data, such as an address, accordingto some pattern (also used to create the pattern dictionary). The systemfinds similar addresses in the customer data by labeling them accordingto the addresses with the same pattern. This informs the user as to thenumber or magnitude of addresses with the pattern, to aid in thedecision to generate a model or not, and also could be used to filterout addresses according to this pattern if the model does not performwell. In other words, the system outputs the number of addresses,percentage of addresses or other metric data indicating the how manyaddresses include the identified pattern. Addresses having the patternare likely to be impacted by the root cause pattern during parsing ifthe model is not retrained to handle the root cause pattern differently.

In still other examples, the system generates data conforming to somepattern. For example, the system can sample from the pattern_dictionaryk addresses according to pattern p candidate to be used as test data. Ifp_candidate does not exist in the dictionary, the system constructsaddress conforming to p_candidate by sampling and concatenating addresscomponents from the pattern_dictionary. For the data characteristicpattern, it generates data according to the data characteristic. Forexample, sampling and generating addresses with the city “Sydney” inthem.

The system, in yet other examples evaluates data conforming to somepattern. The model manager evaluates the model on this sampled data andthe similar addresses from their own data and shows the results to theuser. The user can then decide if they would like to continue with themodel training or not based on the results and the number of addresseswith the similar pattern in their dataset.

In yet other examples, the system samples data conforming to somepattern. It can sample from the pattern_dictionary j addresses accordingto pattern p_candidate to be used as training data for j in some set ofvalues J. Or using another method if the pattern is a datacharacteristic. The sampling algorithm is critical to the algorithm. Theidea is to leverage the transition matrix to recommend the size of thesample.

The ML model, in some examples can be retrained for each training setgenerated. The ML model is evaluated on the data conforming to somepattern. For each retrained model, evaluate on the existing test datasets and the new test sets sampled from the pattern (step 3). Confirmthe change has on parity metrics for other patterns and improves thep_candidate. For each retrained model, evaluate on the customer examples(given in the beginning at step 1). Also evaluate the model onidentified similar addresses to the customer examples. If the metricsare on parity or improved, confirm if the customer wants to adopt thenew model on the examples given by the customer or on addresses thatwould be parsed differently from the previous model in the rest of thecustomer data. The retrained model can then be deployed for utilizationby the user.

FIG. 12 is an exemplary table 1200 including example address data setexamples. The table 1200 include data set examples of root causepatterns such as, but not limited to, data characteristics and/orordering of address components.

The different components, in some examples, are parsed from theunstructured address include:

-   -   address line 1, address line 2, address line 3, city, state,        postal code, country, state district, and country region.

The pattern may be a textual representation of the components as in theexample: address line 1 city state postal code country. The pattern infuture work may also include some type of characteristic of the data:specific values or aliases or differences in formatting.

Many businesses have address data from their customers, but it is in anunstructured format. Parsing the addresses into a structured formatimproves unification of records, enrichment of data based on the parsedcomponents, and segmentation of the data on the parsed components. Theunification, enrichment, and segmentation improve the business's abilityto have actionable insights on their data that can be used to increaseprofit for the business.

The system in some examples uses a pretrained model to parse theaddresses. The ML model may be used on unseen customer data. There mayalso be other addresses the pretrained M model does not successfullyparse into an accurate structural address data. To improve the accuracyof the ML model on user-provided data and improve the user's trust inthe ML model, a customer feedback loop may be provided to improve the MLmodel. This feedback loop may be from customer examples or from themodel manager's evaluation of the ML model processing customer data.These examples can be used to train a new custom model to improve theaccuracy. The examples can also be used to identify similar addresses incase the model is not able to improve the segment and to be used for themodel evaluation.

FIG. 13 is an exemplary table illustrating pattern dictionary data 1300.The pattern dictionary data 1300 includes an example of unstructuredaddress data in input line 1302. The output 1304 illustrates thestructured format of the example address in the pattern dictionary.

Thus, in some examples, a new process and technique for parsing anunstructured address into a structured form is provided. The systemutilizes is a technique of labeling data as having some pattern. Data isgenerated into the pattern dictionary. Using stored data rather thanuser-provided customer data that has not yet been used for training ortesting, a pattern dictionary is created based on the data. The key isthe root cause pattern, and the value is the list of addresses with thatvalue. For each address in the dataset, the address and pattern areadded to the dictionary for the whole address and all sub patterns.

In an example scenario, a user provides the ML model with anunstructured address in which the data stored as a single column in atable. For example, the user may enter the following text:

Address: “1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash., 98052, United States ofAmerica”

In this case, the output would be:

Address Line 1: 1 Microsoft Way

City: Redmond

State: WA

Postal code: 98052

Country: United States of America

To perform the parsing of the address, in some examples, an ML model isused. The model is trained to improve model performance by extractingpatterns and data characteristics of examples provided by users. Thesystem can also provide sample customer addresses similar to theexamples to help users understand the impact of the root cause patternon the ML model performance processing a given user provided addressdata set.

A pattern is defined by the components and their order present in theparsed address, or some characteristics of the data in the pattern. Inour example the pattern is:

address line 1 city state postal code country.

The user behavior is central to the process.

In the beginning, there are multiple ways the user can send us examples.If the customer data has a structured address, the system can comparethe output of our model with the values from the structured address.Then the addresses that are not parsed correctly can be used as examplesto improve the model. The user can report addresses that were not parsedcorrectly, and so the system can directly receive addresses in this way.Then the system can identify similar addresses in the data and createexamples from the stored datasets. The model manager evaluates thecurrent model on these results and shows them to the user. The user thenknows the scale of the addresses suffering the problem and how bad theprediction overall on this segment.

Based on the information, the user can then choose if they would like usto train a custom model to improve these segments or not. If the metricsare already good, training a model may not be useful. Additionally, ifthere are few similar addresses it may not be worth training a newmodel, so it may be better to flag them and not use their output. At theend of the process, the user makes the choice to accept the new modelthat was improved based on the examples and addresses generated from ourdata based on the identified patterns after being shown the metrics onthese datasets.

FIG. 14 is an exemplary table 1400 including metrics data for a trainedML model and the retrained ML model. The performance metrics data in thetable 1400 illustrates the percentage accuracy for parsed data generatedby the ML model at row 1402. The table 1400 shows an increase inaccuracy of parsing data by the retrained ML model at row 1404. Forexample, the accuracy metrics for the ML model at 1402 shows an accuracyof sixty-nine-point six percent overall accuracy rate for parsed dataoutput by the model in response to a data set. When the same data set isrun through the retrained ML model, the accuracy rate increases up toeighty-four-point one percent. A significant improvement in dataaccuracy for the model output.

Additional Examples

Some aspects and examples disclosed herein are directed to a system,method and/or computer executable instructions for normalizing addressdata by a ML model. The system includes a data storage device storingunstructured address data associated with a plurality of geographicaladdresses; a communications interface device that receives one or moregeographical addresses incorrectly parsed by an address normalizationmodel; at least one processor; and one or more tangiblecomputer-readable media having stored thereon program code fornormalizing address data, the program code causing the at least oneprocessor to: identify a root cause including a pattern withinunstructured address associated with the one or more geographicaladdresses potentially causing the address normalization model toincorrectly parse the one or more geographical addresses, wherein thepattern comprises an order of components within an address or a datacharacteristic of an address; generate a set of example address datacomprising unstructured address data associated with a set of examplegeographical addresses, each example geographical address in the set ofexample geographical addresses comprising a pattern corresponding to theidentified probable root cause; and re-train the address normalizationmodel using the set of example address data to automatically generate atrained address normalization model capable of correctly parsinggeographical addresses having the pattern associated with the rootcause.

Additional aspects and examples disclosed herein are directed to asystem, method or computer executable instructions for identifying oneor more geographical addresses incorrectly parsed by an addressnormalization model; generating a root cause including a pattern withinunstructured address data associated with the one or more geographicaladdresses causing the address normalization model to incorrectly parsethe one or more geographical addresses, wherein the pattern comprises anorder of components within an address or a data characteristic of anaddress; creating a set of example address data comprising unstructuredaddress data including the pattern corresponding to the identified rootcause; and re-training the address normalization model using the set ofexample address data, wherein the trained address normalization model isre-trained to parse geographical addresses having the pattern associatedwith the root cause in a different manner to automatically reduceparsing errors.

Additional aspects and examples disclosed herein are directed to asystem, method and/or one or more computer storage devices havingcomputer-executable instructions stored thereon for automaticallyretraining models using root cause pattern recognition, which, onexecution by a computer, cause the computer to perform operationscomprising: receive an analysis result from a ML algorithm associatedwith a trained model, the analysis result comprising parsed dataindicating the model is underperforming with regard to parsing at leasta portion of the unstructured data input into the trained model;identify at least one pattern in the portion of the unstructured dataassociated with a root cause contributing to underperformance of thetrained model, the pattern comprising at least one of an order ofcomponents within the portion of the unstructured data or a datacharacteristic of the unstructured data incorrectly parsed by thetrained model; generate one or more examples comprising the root causepattern; automatically retrain the ML algorithm associated with thetrained model using the one or more examples wherein the retrainingteaches the ML algorithm to correctly parse input unstructured dataincluding the root cause pattern; and responsive to determining theretrained ML algorithm associated with the trained model is detectingthe root cause pattern, resume parsing of the unstructured data by thetrained model.

In some examples, a geographic address parsing/normalization model isretrained to identify examples of inaccurate address parsing by themachine learning model. The ML model identifies the pattern/root causeof inaccurate parsing examples and generates new training/testing datasatisfying the identified patterns. The ML model finds customer examplessimilar to the identified patterns and evaluates the model for the newgenerated data. The system allows the user to decide whether to retrainthe model or continue using the ML model without retraining it. Thesystem generates or otherwise obtains sample training data foridentified patterns and retrains the model. The ML model shares themetrics describing the ML model performance on the overall dataset andthe new segment for the identified root cause.

In other examples, the system provides a new way to identify a rootcause pattern that describes user example addresses (could be related tothe order of the components in the address or a data characteristic).The ML model provides a new way to generate and sample new dataaccording to the identified pattern. Customer addresses are segmentedsimilar to the examples where the model predicted incorrect parsingresults. The system further provides labeling existing data as having agiven root cause pattern based on user-provided address data and/orbased on pre-existing address data available in a database or other datastore. The labeled data is used to train and/or re-train the addressnormalization ML model. The model manager evaluates the addressnormalization ML models based on data that is segmented in accordancewith the identified root cause pattern.

Alternatively, or in addition to the other examples described herein,examples include any combination of the following:

-   -   identify a potential root cause pattern associated with an        incorrectly parsed portion of the unstructured data; generate a        confidence score associated with the identified potential root        cause pattern;    -   responsive to the confidence score falling below a threshold        score, reject the identified cause as an actual root cause,        wherein a low confidence score indicates a low level of        confidence potential root cause pattern associated with the        parsed portion of the data contributed to incorrect parsing of        the portion of the unstructured data;    -   responsive to the confidence score being greater than or equal        to the threshold score, identify the potential root cause        pattern as the actual root cause for the incorrectly parsed        portion, wherein a high confidence score indicates a high level        of confidence the potential root cause pattern contributed to        the incorrect parsing of the portion of the unstructured data;    -   present, via a user interface device, a result of an evaluation        of the trained model using the set of test data with performance        metrics to a user;    -   responsive to receiving user approval, authorize training of the        ML algorithm associated with the trained model;    -   provide, via a user interface device, a result of an evaluation        of the trained model to a user via a user interface device,        wherein the trained model is evaluated using a set of test data        with performance metrics;    -   responsive to receiving user approval, deploy the trained model,        wherein the trained replaces an address normalization model for        parsing geographical address data;    -   wherein the set of example geographical addresses comprises a        set of test data for testing a performance of the address        normalization model;    -   present, via a user interface device, a result of an evaluation        of the address normalization model using the set of test data        with performance metrics to a user;    -   responsive to receiving user approval, authorize re-training of        the address normalization model;    -   provide, via a user interface device, a result of an evaluation        of the trained address normalization model to a user via a user        interface device, wherein the trained address normalization        model is evaluated using a set of test data with performance        metrics;    -   responsive to receiving user approval, deploy the trained        address normalization model, wherein the trained address        normalization model replaces the address normalization model for        parsing geographical address data;    -   responsive to a determination the pattern is a market associated        with an address in the one or more geographical addresses parsed        incorrectly by the address normalization model, display a result        of the address normalization model to a user interface device,        the result comprising an identification of the potential root        cause as a market pattern and a recommendation to continue        utilization of the address normalization model without        re-training;    -   a pattern dictionary, wherein the pattern is the order of the        address components;    -   prompt, via a user interface device, a user to approve        re-training of the address normalization model prior to        beginning retraining, wherein retraining of the address        normalization model occurs after receiving user approval;    -   prompt, via a user interface device, a user for approval to        deploy the trained address normalization model, wherein the        trained address normalization model is deployed for utilization        in parsing geographical addresses after user approval is        received;    -   identify a probable cause for an incorrectly parsed address;    -   generate a confidence score associated with the probable root        cause;    -   responsive to the confidence score exceeding a threshold score,        reject the probable cause as the root cause;    -   responsive to the confidence score falling below the threshold        score, identify the probable cause as the root cause for the        incorrectly parsed address;    -   generate an impact score associated with an impact of the root        cause on a customer data set comprising a plurality of customer        addresses for parsing by the address normalization model;    -   responsive to the impact score exceeding a threshold impact        score, generate a recommendation to re-train the address        normalization model wherein the recommend is presented to a user        via a user interface device;    -   responsive to the impact score falling below the threshold        impact score, generate a recommendation to continue using the        trained ML model without retraining the ML model, wherein        addresses having the pattern are flagged by the address        normalization model;    -   providing, via a user interface device, a result of an        evaluation of the address normalization model using the set of        test data with performance metrics to a user;    -   authorizing re-training of the address normalization model in        response to receiving user approval;    -   providing, via a user interface device, a result of an        evaluation of the re-address normalization model to a user via a        user interface device, wherein the trained address normalization        model is evaluated using a set of test data with performance        metrics;    -   authorizing deployment of the trained address normalization        model, wherein the trained address normalization model replaces        the address normalization model in response to receiving user        approval;    -   generating an evaluation result of the address normalization        model to a user interface device, the result comprising an        identification of the root cause as a market pattern and a        recommendation to continue utilization of the address        normalization model without re-training in response to a        determination the pattern is a market associated with an address        in the one or more geographical addresses parsed incorrectly by        the address normalization model;    -   present, via a user interface device, the evaluation result,        including the recommendation, to a user;    -   identifying an example of inaccurate address parsing by the        address normalization model based on a confidence score assigned        to each parsed address generated by the address normalization        model;    -   prompting, via a user interface device, a user to approve        re-training of the address normalization model prior to        beginning retraining, wherein retraining of the address        normalization model occurs after receiving user approval;    -   retraining the address normalization model using a set of        training data, including a plurality of labeled address data        having the pattern associated with the identified root cause;    -   prompting, via a user interface device, a user for approval to        deploy the trained address normalization model, wherein the        re-trained machine learning model is deployed for utilization in        parsing geographical addresses after user approval is received;    -   parsing a plurality of customer geographical addresses via        deployed re-trained machine learning model;    -   generating an impact score associated with an impact of the root        cause on a customer data set comprising a plurality of customer        addresses for parsing by the address normalization model;    -   generating a recommendation to re-train the address        normalization model in response to the impact score exceeding a        threshold impact score wherein the recommend is presented to a        user via a user interface device;    -   generating a recommendation to continue using the address        normalization model without retraining in response to the impact        score falling below the threshold impact score, wherein        addresses having the pattern are flagged by the address        normalization model;    -   identifying a cause for an incorrectly parsed portion of data;        generating a confidence score associated with the cause;        rejecting the probable cause as the root cause if a confidence        score associated with the parsed portion of the data exceeds a        threshold score, wherein a high confidence score indicates a        high level of confidence the parsed portion of the data is        parsed within expected performance parameters;    -   identifying the probable cause as the root cause for the        incorrectly parsed address if the confidence score falls below        the threshold score, wherein a low confidence score indicates a        low level of confidence the parsed portion of the data is parsed        within expected performance parameters;    -   wherein the one or more examples comprises a set of test data        for testing a performance of the trained model;    -   a user interface device, wherein a model manager outputs a        result of an evaluation of the trained model using the set of        test data with performance metrics for presentation to a user        via the user interface device;    -   generating the one or more examples based on at least a portion        of data obtained from a pattern dictionary.

At least a portion of the functionality of the various elements in FIG.1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4, and FIG. 5 can be performed by other elementsin FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, or an entity (e.g.,processor 106, web service, server, application program, computingdevice, etc.) not shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4, and FIG. 5.

While the aspects of the disclosure have been described in terms ofvarious examples with their associated operations, a person skilled inthe art would appreciate that a combination of operations from anynumber of different examples is also within scope of the aspects of thedisclosure.

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FIG. 15 is a block diagram of an example computing device 1500 forimplementing aspects disclosed herein and is designated generally ascomputing device 1500. Computing device 1500 is an example of a suitablecomputing environment and is not intended to suggest any limitation asto the scope of use or functionality of the examples disclosed herein.Neither should computing device 1500 be interpreted as having anydependency or requirement relating to any one or combination ofcomponents/modules illustrated. The examples disclosed herein may bedescribed in the general context of computer code or machine-useableinstructions, including computer-executable instructions such as programcomponents, being executed by a computer or other machine, such as apersonal data assistant or other handheld device. Generally, programcomponents including routines, programs, objects, components, datastructures, and the like, refer to code that performs particular tasks,or implement particular abstract data types. The disclosed examples maybe practiced in a variety of system configurations, including personalcomputers, laptops, smart phones, mobile tablets, hand-held devices,consumer electronics, specialty computing devices, etc. The disclosedexamples may also be practiced in distributed computing environmentswhen tasks are performed by remote-processing devices that are linkedthrough a communications network.

Computing device 1500 includes a bus 1510 that directly or indirectlycouples the following devices: computer-storage memory 1512, one or moreprocessors 1514, one or more presentation components 1516, I/O ports1518, I/O components 1520, a power supply 1522, and a network component1524. While computing device 1500 is depicted as a seemingly singledevice, multiple computing devices 1500 may work together and share thedepicted device resources. For example, memory 1512 may be distributedacross multiple devices, and processor(s) 1514 may be housed withdifferent devices.

Bus 1510 represents what may be one or more busses (such as an addressbus, data bus, or a combination thereof). Although the various blocks ofFIG. 15 are shown with lines for the sake of clarity, delineatingvarious components may be accomplished with alternative representations.For example, a presentation component such as a display device is an I/Ocomponent in some examples, and some examples of processors have theirown memory. Distinction is not made between such categories as“workstation,” “server,” “laptop,” “hand-held device,” etc., as all arecontemplated within the scope of FIG. 15 and the references herein to a“computing device.” Memory 1512 may take the form of thecomputer-storage media references below and operatively provide storageof computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules andother data for computing device 1500. In some examples, memory 1512stores one or more of an operating system, a universal applicationplatform, or other program modules and program data. Memory 1512 is thusable to store and access data 1512 a and instructions 1512 b that areexecutable by processor 1514 and configured to carry out the variousoperations disclosed herein.

In some examples, memory 1512 includes computer-storage media in theform of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory, removable or non-removablememory, data disks in virtual environments, or a combination thereof.Memory 1512 may include any quantity of memory associated with oraccessible by computing device 1500. Memory 1512 may be internal tocomputing device 1500 (as shown in FIG. 15), external to computingdevice 1500 (not shown), or both (not shown). Examples of memory 1512 ininclude, without limitation, random access memory (RAM); read onlymemory (ROM); electronically erasable programmable read only memory(EEPROM); flash memory or other memory technologies; CD-ROM, digitalversatile disks (DVDs) or other optical or holographic media; magneticcassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magneticstorage devices; memory wired into an analog computing device; or anyother medium for encoding desired information and for access bycomputing device 1500. Additionally, or alternatively, memory 1512 maybe distributed across multiple computing devices 1500, for example, in avirtualized environment in which instruction processing is carried outon multiple computing devices 1500. For the purposes of this disclosure,“computer storage media,” “computer-storage memory,” “memory,” and“memory devices” are synonymous terms for computer-storage memory 1512,and none of these terms include carrier waves or propagating signaling.

Processor(s) 1514 may include any quantity of processing units that readdata from various entities, such as memory 1512 or I/O components 1520and may include CPUs and/or GPUs. Specifically, processor(s) 1514 areprogrammed to execute computer-executable instructions for implementingaspects of the disclosure. The instructions may be performed by theprocessor, by multiple processors within computing device 1500, or by aprocessor external to client computing device 1500. In some examples,processor(s) 1514 are programmed to execute instructions such as thoseillustrated in the in the accompanying drawings. Moreover, in someexamples, processor(s) 1514 represent an implementation of analogtechniques to perform the operations described herein. For example, theoperations may be performed by an analog client computing device 1500and/or a digital client computing device 1500. Presentation component(s)1516 present data indications to a user or other device. Exemplarypresentation components include a display device, speaker, printingcomponent, vibrating component, etc. One skilled in the art willunderstand and appreciate that computer data may be presented in anumber of ways, such as visually in a graphical user interface (GUI),audibly through speakers, wirelessly between computing devices 1500,across a wired connection, or in other ways. I/O ports 1518 allowcomputing device 1500 to be logically coupled to other devices includingI/O components 1520, some of which may be built in. Example I/Ocomponents 1520 include, for example but without limitation, amicrophone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, printer,wireless device, etc.

Computing device 1500 may operate in a networked environment via networkcomponent 1524 using logical connections to one or more remotecomputers. In some examples, network component 1524 includes a networkinterface card and/or computer-executable instructions (e.g., a driver)for operating the network interface card. Communication betweencomputing device 1500 and other devices may occur using any protocol ormechanism over any wired or wireless connection. In some examples,network component 1524 is operable to communicate data over public,private, or hybrid (public and private) using a transfer protocol,between devices wirelessly using short range communication technologies(e.g., near-field communication (NFC), Bluetooth™ brandedcommunications, or the like), or a combination thereof. Networkcomponent 1524 communicates over wireless communication link 1526 and/ora wired communication link 1526 a to a cloud resource 1528 acrossnetwork 1530. Various different examples of communication links 1526 and1526 a include a wireless connection, a wired connection, and/or adedicated link, and in some examples, at least a portion is routedthrough the internet.

Although described in connection with an example computing device 1500,examples of the disclosure are capable of implementation with numerousother general-purpose or special-purpose computing system environments,configurations, or devices. Examples of well-known computing systems,environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for use withaspects of the disclosure include, but are not limited to, smart phones,mobile tablets, mobile computing devices, personal computers, servercomputers, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, gamingconsoles, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmableconsumer electronics, mobile telephones, mobile computing and/orcommunication devices in wearable or accessory form factors (e.g.,watches, glasses, headsets, or earphones), network PCs, minicomputers,mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include anyof the above systems or devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, augmentedreality (AR) devices, mixed reality (MR) devices, holographic device,and the like. Such systems or devices may accept input from the user inany way, including from input devices such as a keyboard or pointingdevice, via gesture input, proximity input (such as by hovering), and/orvia voice input.

Examples of the disclosure may be described in the general context ofcomputer-executable instructions, such as program modules, executed byone or more computers or other devices in software, firmware, hardware,or a combination thereof. The computer-executable instructions may beorganized into one or more computer-executable components or modules.Generally, program modules include, but are not limited to, routines,programs, objects, components, and data structures that performparticular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Aspects ofthe disclosure may be implemented with any number and organization ofsuch components or modules. For example, aspects of the disclosure arenot limited to the specific computer-executable instructions or thespecific components or modules illustrated in the figures and describedherein. Other examples of the disclosure may include differentcomputer-executable instructions or components having more or lessfunctionality than illustrated and described herein. In examplesinvolving a general-purpose computer, aspects of the disclosuretransform the general-purpose computer into a special-purpose computingdevice when configured to execute the instructions described herein.

By way of example and not limitation, computer readable media comprisecomputer storage media and communication media. Computer storage mediainclude volatile and nonvolatile, removable, and non-removable memoryimplemented in any method or technology for storage of information suchas computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, orthe like. Computer storage media are tangible and mutually exclusive tocommunication media. Computer storage media are implemented in hardwareand exclude carrier waves and propagated signals. Computer storage mediafor purposes of this disclosure are not signals per se. Exemplarycomputer storage media include hard disks, flash drives, solid-statememory, phase change random-access memory (PRAM), static random-accessmemory (SRAM), dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), other types ofrandom-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), electricallyerasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or othermemory technology, compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), digitalversatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes,magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices,or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to storeinformation for access by a computing device. In contrast, communicationmedia typically embody computer readable instructions, data structures,program modules, or the like in a modulated data signal such as acarrier wave or other transport mechanism and include any informationdelivery media.

The order of execution or performance of the operations in examples ofthe disclosure illustrated and described herein is not essential and maybe performed in different sequential manners in various examples. Forexample, it is contemplated that executing or performing a particularoperation before, contemporaneously with, or after another operation iswithin the scope of aspects of the disclosure. When introducing elementsof aspects of the disclosure or the examples thereof, the articles “a,”“an,” “the,” and “said” are intended to mean that there are one or moreof the elements. The terms “comprising,” “including,” and “having” areintended to be inclusive and mean that there may be additional elementsother than the listed elements. The term “exemplary” is intended to mean“an example of” The phrase “one or more of the following: A, B, and C”means “at least one of A and/or at least one of B and/or at least one ofC.”

Having described aspects of the disclosure in detail, it will beapparent that modifications and variations are possible withoutdeparting from the scope of aspects of the disclosure as defined in theappended claims. As various changes could be made in the aboveconstructions, products, and methods without departing from the scope ofaspects of the disclosure, it is intended that all matter contained inthe above description and shown in the accompanying drawings shall beinterpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer system for automatically retraining amodel using root cause pattern recognition, the computer systemcomprising: a data storage device storing unstructured data; at leastone processor; and one or more computer-readable media having storedthereon program code for pattern recognition, the program code causingthe at least one processor to: receive an analysis result from a machinelearning (ML) algorithm associated with a trained model, the analysisresult comprising parsed data indicating the trained model isunderperforming with regard to parsing at least a portion of theunstructured data that is input into the trained model; identify a rootcause pattern in the portion of the unstructured data associated with aroot cause contributing to underperformance of the trained model, theroot cause pattern comprising at least one of an order of componentswithin the portion of the unstructured data or a data characteristic ofthe unstructured data incorrectly parsed by the trained model; generateone or more examples comprising the root cause pattern; automaticallyretrain the ML algorithm associated with the trained model using the oneor more examples, wherein the retraining teaches the ML algorithm tocorrectly parse the unstructured data including the root cause pattern;and responsive to determining the retrained ML algorithm associated withthe trained model is detecting the root cause pattern, redeploy thetrained model for parsing of the unstructured data including the rootcause pattern.
 2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one ormore examples comprises a set of test data for testing a performance ofthe trained model, and further comprising: a user interface device,wherein a model manager outputs a result of an evaluation of the trainedmodel using the set of test data with performance metrics forpresentation to a user via the user interface device.
 3. The computersystem of claim 1, further comprising: a pattern dictionary, wherein theroot cause pattern is associated with the order of the components, andwherein the one or more examples is generated based on at least aportion of data obtained from the pattern dictionary.
 4. The computersystem of claim 1, wherein the program code further causes the at leastone processor to: identify a potential root cause pattern associatedwith an incorrectly parsed portion of the unstructured data; generate aconfidence score associated with the potential root cause pattern;responsive to the confidence score falling below a threshold score,reject the potential root cause pattern as the root cause, wherein a lowconfidence score indicates a low level of confidence that the potentialroot cause pattern associated with the incorrectly parsed portion of thedata contributed to incorrect parsing of the portion of the unstructureddata; and responsive to the confidence score being greater than or equalto the threshold score, identify the potential root cause pattern as theroot cause for the incorrectly parsed portion, wherein a high confidencescore indicates a high level of confidence the potential root causepattern contributed to the incorrect parsing of the portion of theunstructured data.
 5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein theprogram code further causes the at least one processor to: generate animpact score associated with the root cause and a selected data setcomprising the unstructured data for parsing by the trained model, theimpact score identifying a scope of the root cause present in theselected data set; and generate a recommendation to train the MLalgorithm associated with the trained model in response to the impactscore exceeding a threshold impact score.
 6. The computer system ofclaim 1, wherein the trained model is a trained address normalizationmodel, and further comprising: a data storage device storingunstructured address data associated with a plurality of geographicaladdresses, wherein the program code further causes the at least oneprocessor to: identify the root cause of a parsing error identifiedwithin unstructured address data associated with at least onegeographical address from the plurality of geographical addresses, atleast one geographical address parsed incorrectly by the trained addressnormalization model, the root cause including the root cause patterncomprising at least one of an order of components within an address or adata characteristic of an address; generate a set of example addressdata comprising unstructured address data associated with a set ofexample geographical addresses including the root cause patterncorresponding to the root cause pattern, wherein the set of exampleaddress data is generated based on at least a portion of the pluralityof geographical addresses associated with the root cause pattern; andautomatically retrain the trained address normalization model using theset of example address data to correctly parse one or more geographicaladdresses in the plurality of geographical addresses having the rootcause pattern.
 7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the trainedmodel is a trained address normalization model, and further comprising:a data storage device storing unstructured address data associated witha plurality of geographical addresses, wherein the program code furthercauses the at least one processor to: identify the root cause pattern isa market associated with at least one geographical address from aplurality of geographical addresses parsed incorrectly by the trainedaddress normalization model.
 8. A method for automatically retraining amodel using root cause pattern recognition, the method comprising:receiving an analysis result from a ML algorithm associated with atrained model, the analysis result comprising parsed data indicating thetrained model is underperforming with regard to parsing at least aportion of unstructured data that is input into the trained model;identifying a root cause pattern in the portion of the unstructured dataassociated with a root cause contributing to underperformance of thetrained model, the root cause pattern comprising at least one of anorder of components within the portion of the unstructured data or adata characteristic of the portion of the unstructured data that isincorrectly parsed by the trained model; generating one or more examplescomprising the root cause pattern; automatically retraining the MLalgorithm associated with the trained model using the one or moregenerated examples wherein the retraining teaches the ML algorithm tocorrectly parse the unstructured data including the identified rootcause pattern; and responsive to determining the retrained ML algorithmassociated with the trained model is detecting the root cause pattern,resuming parsing of the unstructured data by the trained model.
 9. Themethod of claim 8, wherein the one or more generated examples comprisesa set of test data for testing a performance of the trained model, andfurther comprising: presenting, via a user interface device, a result ofan evaluation of the trained model using the set of test data withperformance metrics for presentation to a user via the user interfacedevice.
 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the one or more generatedexamples are created based on at least a portion of data obtained from apattern dictionary.
 11. The method of claim 8, wherein identifying theroot cause pattern further comprises: identifying a potential root causepattern associated with an incorrectly parsed portion of unstructureddata; generating a confidence score associated with the potential rootcause pattern; responsive to the confidence score falling below athreshold score, rejecting the potential root cause pattern as the rootcause, wherein a low confidence score indicates a low level ofconfidence that the potential root cause pattern associated with theincorrectly parsed portion of the data contributed to incorrect parsingof the portion of the unstructured data; and responsive to theconfidence score being greater than or equal to the threshold score,identifying the potential root cause pattern as the root cause for theincorrectly parsed portion, wherein a high confidence score indicates ahigh level of confidence the potential root cause pattern contributed toincorrect parsing of the portion of the unstructured data.
 12. Themethod of claim 8, further comprising: generating an impact scoreassociated with an impact of the root cause on a customer data setcomprising the unstructured data for parsing by the trained model; andgenerating a recommendation to retrain the ML algorithm associated withthe trained model in response to the impact score exceeding a thresholdimpact score.
 13. The method of claim 8, wherein the trained model is atrained address normalization model, and further comprising: identifyingthe root cause of a parsing error identified within unstructured addressdata associated with at least one geographical address from a pluralityof geographical addresses, at least one geographical address parsedincorrectly by the trained address normalization model, the root causeincluding the root cause pattern comprising at least one of an order ofcomponents within an address or a data characteristic of an address;generating a set of example address data comprising unstructured addressdata associated with a set of example geographical addresses includingthe root cause pattern, wherein the set of example address data isgenerated based on at least a portion of the plurality of geographicaladdresses associated with the root cause pattern; and retraining thetrained address normalization model using the set of example addressdata to correctly parse one or more geographical addresses in theplurality of geographical addresses having the root cause pattern. 14.The method of claim 8, further comprising: identifying the root causepattern is a market associated with at least one geographical addressfrom a plurality of geographical addresses parsed incorrectly by thetrained model.
 15. One or more computer storage devices havingcomputer-executable instructions stored thereon for automaticallyretraining a model using root cause pattern recognition, which, onexecution by a computer, cause the computer to perform operationscomprising: receiving an analysis result from a ML algorithm associatedwith a trained model, the analysis result comprising parsed dataindicating the trained model is underperforming with regard to parsingat least a portion of unstructured data that is input into the trainedmodel; identifying a root cause pattern in the portion of theunstructured data associated with a root cause contributing tounderperformance of the trained model, the root cause pattern comprisingat least one of an order of components within the portion of theunstructured data or a data characteristic of the portion of theunstructured data that is incorrectly parsed by the trained model;generating one or more examples comprising the root cause pattern;automatically retraining the ML algorithm associated with the trainedmodel using the generated one or more examples, wherein the retrainingteaches the ML algorithm to correctly parse the unstructured dataincluding the root cause pattern; and responsive to determining theretrained ML algorithm associated with the trained model is detectingthe root cause pattern, resuming parsing of the unstructured data by thetrained model.
 16. The one or more computer storage devices of claim 15,wherein the operations further comprise: presenting, via a userinterface device, a result of an evaluation of the trained model using aset of test data with performance metrics for presentation to a user viaa user interface device.
 17. The one or more computer storage devices ofclaim 15, wherein the operations further comprise: generating the one ormore examples based on at least a portion of data obtained from apattern dictionary.
 18. The one or more computer storage devices ofclaim 15, wherein the operations further comprise: identifying apotential root cause pattern associated with an incorrectly parsedportion of unstructured data; generating a confidence score associatedwith the potential root cause pattern; rejecting the potential rootcause pattern as the root cause in response to the confidence scorefalling below a threshold score, wherein a low confidence scoreindicates a low level of confidence the potential root cause patternassociated with the incorrectly parsed portion of the data contributedto incorrect parsing of the portion of the unstructured data; andidentifying the potential root cause pattern as the root cause for theincorrectly parsed portion in response to the confidence score beinggreater than or equal to the threshold score, wherein a high confidencescore indicates a high level of confidence the potential root causepattern contributed to the incorrect parsing of the portion of theunstructured data.
 19. The one or more computer storage devices of claim15, wherein the operations further comprise: generating an impact scoreassociated with an impact of the root cause on a customer data setcomprising the unstructured data for parsing by the trained model; andgenerating a recommendation to retrain the ML algorithm associated withthe trained model in response to the impact score exceeding a thresholdimpact score.
 20. The one or more computer storage devices of claim 15,wherein the trained model is a trained address normalization model, andwherein the operations further comprise: identifying a root cause of aparsing error identified within unstructured address data associatedwith at least one geographical address from a plurality of geographicaladdresses, at least one geographical address parsed incorrectly by thetrained address normalization model, the root cause including the rootcause pattern comprising at least one of an order of components withinan address or a data characteristic of an address; generating a set ofexample address data the comprising unstructured address data associatedwith a set of example geographical addresses including the root causepattern corresponding to the root cause pattern, wherein the set ofexample address data is generated based on at least a portion of theplurality of geographical addresses associated with the root causepattern; and retraining the trained address normalization model usingthe set of example address data to correctly parse one or moregeographical addresses in the plurality of geographical addresses havingthe root cause pattern.